Abstract
The radiation-dominated FRW cosmology emerges as the induced metric on a codimension one hypersurface of constant extrinsic curvature in the five-dimensional AdS-Schwarzschild solution. That we should get FRW cosmology in this way is an expected result from AdS/CFT in light of recent comments regarding the coupling of gravity to “boundary” conformal field theories. I remark on how this calculation bears on the understanding of the Randall-Sundrum “alternative to compactification.” A generalization of the AdS/CFT prescription for computing Green’s functions is suggested, and it is shown how gravity emerges from it with a strength Some upper bounds are set on the radius of curvature L of One of them comes from estimating the rate of leakage of visible sector energy into the CFT. That rate is connected via a unitarity relation to deviations from Newton’s force law at short distances. The best bound on L obtained in this paper comes from a match to the parameters of string theory. It is if the string scale is Higher string scales imply a tighter bound on L.
- Received 28 July 2000
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.63.084017
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